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Douglas L. Koopman

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A Great President’s Second Inaugural Address

Soon after the 2012 election a Perspectives editor asked me to write about the diminished role overt faith had in presidential campaign discourse. He thought I shared his disappointment in the Obama campaign's reluctance to use Christian rhetoric and (his description) "almost total disregard for the Christian community." Turning down the request, I offered a contrary view that the diminished "God talk" of the Obama and Romney campaigns might be good. The limited religious rhetoric was consistent with the two…
Douglas L. Koopman
May 1, 2013
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Choosing Hope

I did not vote for Barack Obama, but I did wish him well, even publicly so on the pages of Perspectives in early 2009. As I wrote, I was not so much opposed to Mr. Obama as worried that a strongly Democratic Congress would push their former junior colleague in directions he might not on his own prefer. As such, I'm little surprised but much disappointed in what has happened in less than two years. Congress has always had difficulty…
Douglas L. Koopman
November 1, 2010
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I Wish Him Well

I did not vote for Barack Obama for president, but I wish him well. I'm a Republican--partly from inertia, partly by chance, partly by personal loyalty, but mostly, in my view, because I think a lot about the American political systems and their unique attributes and how to see them through Christian lenses. The Republican notion of limited government allows more room than the other party option in America for the great Christian social traditions--Catholic subsidiarity and Kuyperian sphere sovereignty.…
Douglas L. Koopman
January 1, 2009